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The good news with Fedora 12 is an extremely easy dial-up-networking connection with bluetooth devices. The sad thing is, Nokia E55 doesn’t have PAN type connection via bluetooth. The good thing is, DUN type connection is almost that easy.

Create connection to your mobile through System > Preferences > Bluetooth > Set up a new device wizard. Also create connection using NetworkManagers Edit connections > Mobile Broadband > Add wizard. This should be enough for PAN, but not for DUN connection used in Nokia devices.

For dial-up-networking, you need to install Blueman application, for example by using terminal.

YUM upgrade has been the most successful method until Fedora 12, but now the recommended preupgrade route has been used. However, if you have systems to upgrade, you’ll probably have too small /boot partition. Well, I have not too good track record for other methods.

Again, if you have ATI, and you want to use catalyst (fglrx) driver, you can’t. X is in too new version for it.

Upgrading to Fedora 10 was a smooth job probably because of RPM Fusion.

To get the most of the new graphical bootup screen, add the vga-parameter in your boot config (/etc/grub.conf):

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.[---8<---] rhgb quiet vga=0x31

The 0x31B is a Kernel VESA graphics mode in 1280×1024 resolution and in 16M colours. If it is not available in your case, check a VGA modes list. And don’t worry, you can change or remove the parameter from GRUB bootup screen.

If you have joined either Dribble, Livna or FreshRMPS repositories, you may have noticed that you’ve got the following updates:

rpmfusion-free-release-9-11.noarch

rpmfusion-nonfree-release-9-11.noarch

You may check it by using the following command:

rpm -q rpmfusion-free-release rpmfusion-nonfree-release

RPM Fusion is a combination of the three repositories mentioned above. Their basic principles are to provide packages which are not allowed in Fedora. Those are the ones with license and patent issues, but still the free to use. Also there are some kernel modules too.

What makes the repository more appealing to the person having multiple Fedoras to be updated, is they do not provide upgrades to the existing Fedora packages. Therefore, there shouldn’t be any package conflicts.

So, the Livna, FreshRPMS and Driblle became obsolete, and you may remove those:

So, I really can’t recommend for upgrading yet. Fedora 9 seems to be stuffed too much beta and pre-release versions.

Edit: Firefox 3 is released and available.

Edit: Upgraded the nVidia Quadro4 380 XGL to nVidia GeForce6200 512MB (cost 42 €) to get the 173.14.09 drivers working (+ compiz now works with dual head too). Also 96.43.07 drivers are now available, but not tested here.

Edit: All the flaws have been worked around, and the Fedora 9 upgrade is recommended.